By: Allison

You guys know how I feel about this show and these characters already. I’ve really missed being apart of the Queen Sugar Fan Club this season. I haven’t read the article yet, because I don’t want to spoil myself for the season if I DO ever get around to watching it, so apologies if any of my questions are answered in the article.

But what I really want to know is, should I bother catching up? Honestly, I have a lot less free time this year than I have the last two years when I eagerly anticipated ever episode of this show, but this season I found I just wasn’t as eager to watch it. It’s definitely not the only show either. But when I found myself with free time to watch TV, this wasn’t the show I turned to.

I could definitely still watch it without the draw of a queer character. I watch plenty of TV that doesn’t have queer characters, or has queer characters that aren’t a huge focus, just because it’s genuinely good TV. So it’s less the erasure of Nova’s sexuality that upsets me than HOW they did it. Because you guys know that what drew me to the show in the first place was the relationship between Nova and Charley as sisters, and I fucking HATED how the show had to go mess with that in the worst possible way. Fine, have the sisters fight and disagree, great, but god how boring is it to have them fighting over a MAN?

So I guess the question is, does that change by the end of the season? Are they still fighting over Remy? Has that storyline been resolved? Because if it hasn’t I’m MORE THAN HAPPY to replace this show with Black Lightning – another show with a queer black character who is NOT in a boring love triangle with her sister, and which I eagerly bingedwatched in about a week.